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Useful Skills

A powerful Active Skill can mean the difference between a top-tier powerhouse monster and a mediocre eye-roller, even with all other factors equal. In general, every team can benefit from a selection of the Active Skill types listed below. Of course, you will need to adjust your team as needed based on the dungeon - for instance, some bosses have preemptive status shields, making Delay skills useless.

Skill type

Description

Examples

Orb change

Especially valuable for mono-color teams, orb changers help prevent droughts of attacking orbs on the board, as well as providing a bigger burst of damage when facing strong enemies. The shorter the cooldown, the more valuable the skill.

All the benefits of Orb changers, plus the ability to wipe the board clean of Jammers, Poison, and other enemy disturbances. Having this type of skill can easily elevate a monster from "okay" to "valuable" or "overpowered".

Once you've got the ideal board of orbs set up, you can still pile on additional damage with Enhance skills that boost by Attribute or Type. Note that you can only have one of these enhances active at a time.

An extra turn against an enemy can be the equivalent of twice the damage - or twice the healing. With the advent of bosses with status shields these days, delay skills are less essential than they used to be, but they can still be a lifesaver against earlier tough foes.

When you can't delay an enemy, these skills may be almost as useful by letting you survive a hit or two. Be sure you know what the enemy is about to do when you use them, because there are plenty of attacks they won't help you against.

Once a staple of every team going up against high-HP bosses, now much less popular due to long cooldowns and the escalating strength of burst teams. Still, it has its place for certain leaders like and .

To find more Active Skills in these categories, browse the tabs in the Active Skills List.

Basic Teams

If you have any of the monsters in the recommended starter list in the New Players' Guide, you can start putting together one of these solid teams right away. Look at your starter's Leader Skill to determine which of these teams to aim for.

Advanced Teams

Most of the basic teams listed above need to stack up Awoken Skills in order to achieve their full potential. These teams are for advanced players who have built up their monsters with lots of TAMADRAs.